Cuspidor-carrier.



E. RUSFELDT.

CUSPIDOR CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED sumac. 1914.

1,137,909. Patented May 4, 1915.

HE NORRIS PETERS 60., PHOHLLITHOH WASHINGTON D. C

EDWARD RUSFELDT, 0F GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA.

CUSPIDOR-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4:, 1915.

Application filed September 30, 1914. Serial No. 864,268.

To all whom it may concern Be it lmown that I, EDWARD Rusrnnnr, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Grand Forks, in the State of North Dakota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuspidor- Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for manipulating cuspidors in the work of collecting, cleaning and replacing them.

It especially relates to means for handling those styles of cuspidors characterized by a downwardly rolled upper rim.

The present invention consists in a carrier for such cuspidors of peculiar construction as hereinafter described and claimed.

The leading objects of the invention are to adapt a device carried in the hand to interlock with the rolled rims of such cuspidors, and to pick up and carry one, or several in succession, up to the capacity of the device; which is preferably and conveniently four, as a load for one hand.

Other objects will be set forth in the general description, which follows.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the said cuspidor carrier; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan, with dotted outlines of a complement of cuspidors as carried by the same; Figs. 3 and 4 are small scale outlines of the respective metallic blanks of the body of the device, as made from wire; and Fig. 5 is a small scale sectional side view illustrating the operation of the device.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in all the figures.

The said cuspidor carrier is constructed with a horizontal handle portion, a; a pair of connecting portions, 6, extending downward from the ends of said handle portion; a central depending shank, c, to which said portions 1) converge; and a plurality of equi distant divergent hook members, (Z, projecting from the lower end of said shank o, and terminating in rigid prongs, e, projecting upward and inward substantially as shown.

In maln'ng the body of the device from sufiiciently stiff and strong wire, the wire is first out and bent to form the blanks a 6 represented respectively by Figs. 3 and 4,

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one of them including the handle portion a or its inner member with the converging portions Z), and each of them having two of the hook members dc, and two thicknesses of the four ply shank c, which is completed by twisting the blanks together.

The handle portion or preferably includes a wooden handle sleeve, a", which is readily added in making the device with its body of wire as above; but for the leading purposes of this invention the device may be cast or forged of metal in one or more parts.

The styles of cuspidors to which this device is adapted are characterized by downwardly rolled rims, f, Figs. 2 and 5, with which the prongs e interlock; and they are readily picked up one by one, and carried in loads of four (more or less) in the manner illustrated by these figures. When the load is complete the depending cuspidors preferably contact loosely with each other as in Fig. 2, and render the load steady and self-centered.

Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention, and desire to patent under this specification 1. A cuspidor carrier having a horizontal handle portion, connecting portions extending downward therefrom, a shank to which said connecting portions converge, and a plurality of equidistant hook portions diverging from the lower end of said shank, each of said hook portions terminating in an upturned prong adapted to interlock with the downwardly rolled rim of one of the several cuspidors which together constitute the load of the device.

2. A cuspidor carrier having a horizontal handle portion, connecting portions extending downward therefrom, a shank to which said connecting portions converge, and hook portions in two pairs diverging from the lower end of said shank and terminating in prongs projecting upward and inward; the body of the device being made of wire, and said handle portion provided with a sleeve; substantially as hereinbefore specified.

EDWARD RUSFELDT. Witnesses: V

A. L. SHIDELER, M. GRABER. 

